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I run a security firm with three of my buddies and I know we've lost out on certain jobs to less qualified minorities because we are white. Affirmative action is bullcrap.

You've got that right. I have a really good friend who is a contractor for the government. The government has to award a certain percentage of contracts to minority-owned businesses. My contractor friend has a great reputation for the good work he does, and it galls me to see him lose work to contractors that charge twice as much as he does for shoddy workmanship. Most minority-owned government contractors do a half-assed job for too much money because they know they can't be fired. It's a total joke.

I've had people tell me (off the record) that they'd rather work with us but they have it from the "higher ups" that they have to work with minorities.

We went from discriminating against blacks (which was before I was born) to discriminating against whites. Can't we find a middle ground?